There’s an old lightning talk from RubyConf 2019 that I love, about how there’s no such thing as knowing your computer “all the way to the bottom.” At no point does it stop being a stack of leaky abstractions.
An unsuspecting fellow emailed me in response, asking, “yes, but isn’t there one, final...
On Mastodon, FullStack Ruby asks:
It’s a strange sort of environment to be living in as a Ruby programmer.
On the one hand, so much momentum behind low-level “systems” programming languages with strong, static typing.
On the other hand, the “future of programming” is guiding the education of...
Sometimes when you’re reading a murder mystery, you’ll want to think about two different scenarios: what if the butler did it, vs what if it was the wealthy socialite? What would be different? What evidence might they leave?
This is also a core skill for senior-and-up software engineers. It’s obvious...
A fellow recently asked me for advice about running a Ruby workshop. And folks, I had forgotten I knew so much about it before he asked!
Before Rebuilding Rails had a video class, I had written a lot of the material for Rebuilding Rails workshops that I gave at Southeast Ruby and at Railsconf. I...
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A certain kind of software developer—or more often, businessperson— likes to talk about a hundred-year programming language, or even a hundred-year framework.
That’s a pretty audacious thing to say. I mean, software development is roughly 65...
A gentleman on Twitter suggested that to make a new SaaS app, you should do these things:
This is pretty good...
Awhile back a fellow asked me the best way to increase test coverage at the small startup he works at.
It’s an excellent question.
Specifically, he asked:
“What’s the best way to go about increasing the unit test coverage of a codebase at a small scale startup? What procedure do you guys follow...
Ruby 3x3 announced that Ruby 3.0 would be three times as fast as Ruby 2.0. It was an audacious goal, especially for a language released in 1995.
Ruby 3 is due to be released in less than a month. They’re hard at work on some of the features, but non-JIT performance is pretty close to release speed...
I’ve recently started a podcast called “Computer Science: Just the Useful Bits.” I interview a different professional developer, with a different background, each week. They’ll let you know what parts of their education they think were good, which were bad, and which were worth emulating.
“When are...
I was recently on Jason Swett’s podcast again. He’s a great interviewer and I always have fun with him.
By Twitter request we talked about… When would you not use Rails? It’s a great question.
For the entertaining version, listen to the podcast. For the just-the-facts extra-complete version, I’m...
In this series I’ve built out a Rails app from scratch, deployed it and I’m this close to getting it actually useful.
Will today be that final bit to hit “useful?” I don’t know as I write this, but it’s getting closer…
Last week we built out subscription buttons, profiles for managing subscriptions...
